Only note: it’s capitalism that selects for sociopaths in leadership roles.

Publicize the costs, privatize the profits!

I saw the photo first before I read the parent comment and was mightily confused at why there were Weird Al hairstyling videos. The priming effect at work.

Also, he should title his next album Weird AI

Delete social media.

Buy a pocket sized e-reader. I recommend options from Bigme and XTEink.

Learn to reach for books instead of apps.

Some additional nuance that I didn’t see yet: there’s a specific meaning to the command or the future tense of hauling ass, as that usage tends to imply the need for haste, specifically to hurry, e.g., “we gotta haul ass”. However, in the past or subjunctive tense, it tends to mean great speed without necessarily implying anxiety or haste - the speed could be entirely innate and casual - e.g., “they were really hauling ass” or “this thing can really haul ass”.

Enshittification 101, right there.

All I’m hearing is “tricorder on the way”

Probably sharing only the negative profits, so, uh, more taxes, everybody!

Intellectual property thief is confidently wrong about a task he has no right or expertise to be performing anyway. The LLM didn’t fall far from the tree.

Include an unprotected exhaust vent in the trench.

They need to evolve how they keep making everything they touch worse and give the finger to Palestine at the same time.

I am an unabashed fan of Ghostbusters 2016. The scene with Holtzmann and the pistols gives me tingles. Kevin is just a gem.

Won’t someone think of the shares???

Too many billionaires are salivating over the latter.

Exactly. People keep shoehorning Large Language Models into non-linguistic domains, and that’s dangerous. Human language, with respect to the training sets used, is inherently subjective and imperfect. Healthcare is very fault-intolerant.

It doesn’t replace any individual directly. It improves one person’s capability to the extent that there may be fewer needed to do a job. And that’s not a bad thing in my opinion, especially because it can improve the quality of that person’s work at the same time.

Edit to elaborate: I am opposed to replacing humans with AI in general. AI is a tool. But if that tool can empower someone to do more and better work, then I’m not opposed. Using stolen intellectual property to replace creatives with an inherently non-creative slop machine is greedy and evil. Using machine learning trained on medical data sets to let a radiologist more comprehensively and deeply review a frankly overwhelming amount of data to better save lives? I’m cool with that. But I also think that, in line with my stance that AI is a tool, there will likely be a well-trained human operating these tools for a long time before radiologists cease to exist.

For what it’s worth, “AI” in this context is probably not the content-stealing Generative AI that everyone is trying to cram everywhere it doesn’t belong. This is a much more legitimate application of a similar technology.

I’m not mad about the idea of AI in radiology because it’s a really good fit. A human radiologist can’t compare a hundred similar slices and cross-correlate possible anomalies, whereas AI can. This improves detection and outcomes and is exactly where medical technology is supposed to help.

That said, I don’t think we’ll replace radiologists across the board for a long time. This will be a very useful tool and will probably reduce the number of radiologists required and modify their roles significantly, but it’ll be more like how a single worker with editing software can do work that would have required a small team in the pre-digital days of film.

Maybe you can’t fight a rocket, but an autonomous taxi on the other hand…

This was way more entertaining than I expected a laundry folding guide to be.